As tax season comes upon us, and my head starts to hurt from thinking about the tax implications of “married – filing jointly” and “married – filing separately” as well as the estimated taxes that self employed folks need to file and the impact of being self-employed for only part of the year, the question begs to be asked:

If the United States Secretary of the Treasury, the nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services and the nominee for Chief Performance Officer work in the government and can’t get their taxes right, how in the world and I supposed to?